Cassian, John, approximately 360-approximately 435
Published / Created:
[between 1100 and 1200]
Call Number:
Marston MS 24
Image Count:
194
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (endpieces, holes, speckled on hair side) of 1) Joannes Cassianus, extracts from De institutis coenobiorum et de octo principalium vitiorum remediis libri XII. 2) Joannes Cassianus, Conlationes XXIV. 3) Miscellaneous notes. 4) ...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cassian, John, approximately 360-approximately 435.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Vice
"A young woman stands within a compass inscribed 'Fear God', holding an open book inscribed 'The Pleasures of Imagination Realized'. At her feet is an open chest full of guineas from which hang bank-notes and jewels; it is inscribed 'The Reward of Vir...
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"A young woman stands within a compass inscribed 'Fear God', holding an open book inscribed 'The Pleasures of Imagination Realized'. At her feet is an open chest full of guineas from which hang bank-notes and jewels; it is inscribed 'The Reward of Vir...
Alternative Title:
Prudence produceth esteem and Keep within compass and you shall be sure, to avoid many troubles which others endure
Description:
Title from text above and below circular image at center of design.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
An emaciated women sits in a bed playing cards. Her clothes and sheets have tears and holes; the wallpaper is falling off the walls. Under her bed is a used chamber pot and to the left a table with shoes and an umbrella. An elegant coat, dress, and ha...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libraire, rue du Coq, no. 25
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Chamber pots, Gamblers, Poverty, Starvation, and Vice
A satire on William Dodd, the scandalous "macaroni parson". Dodd (or perhaps the actor in Samuel Foote’s play The Cozeners, which represented Dodd through the character Doctor Simony) is depicted with all the trappings of his "macaroni" lifestyle, inc...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 21 May 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho
Subject (Name):
Dodd, William, 1729-1777 and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.
Subject (Topic):
Characters, Clergy, Vice, Bottles, Corkscrews, Dandies, British, and Pipes (Smoking)
